The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-31

81 know it." she said, but what differ
snce does the law make2 Ii can't prevent
my being discharged If I'm not wanted any
more, and that's what would happen if l
was seen to sit around much. I've seen girls
try it and know. There's the floor walker
Of this department over there now. She's
got her eye on me-"
turned about after an interval dictated
by caution, and saw a tall, slender, severe
looking woman standing not far off. She
was about - years old, and was unhealthy
10 degree eminently in keeping with her
surroundings. l learned that she had been
long time there and had worked up from
acounter to her present exalted position,
Which pays her Sl2 a week. This woman
was not likely to practice the virtue of elem
ency having never seen any visible mani
1eStat1on Of its existence.
Continuing my conversation | learned
that this woman promptly reported misde-
nleanors, which as promptly secured dis
GnjIge for there is no dearth of workers.
ms information was not given with bitter
ness, and was qualified with the charitable
remark that if she didn't she would herself
De discharged and would probably have to
Degln at the bottom somewhere else, with
the reasonable prospect of dying before she
GOT 10 be floor walker again. also learn
Gu that the girls gotta chance to sit down for
aoout thlrty-five minutes at lunch time, that
vley frequently tainted away in the store;
that almost none could honorably choose
eACepU between their present employment
ahd starvation; and that there was another
easement down alongside the furnaces
winch was hotter than that one. Like Dante
IN the internal regions, ] went on The
notIer place was there, but it was inhabited
Principally by men. From comparison with
turkish bath should say that its tenn
ItIdIuTb about 1CnS Tho xx-prl.af
uiere eight hours day, net, and was not
surprised to learn that one of them had been
permanently removed from his position the
Me'Ious day on stretcher. He was man
Twas %I9 was not strong enough TO stand such
Ieonltatng work and he knew it, but he
o na4 family to support and an insurance
Ui us me- SO, not finding any other place to
LAX, 1II living, he labored industriously
such man.
rt rms was one of those great establishments
l %4eie everything under heaven is sold. A
inSol It's departments would make an
81 +u9uial dictionary. | walked out
en-, lYs doors with a feeling of relief and
tt"eo1eu violently at the change of tempera-
narl lor IL was only go in the shade on the
bo,. occurred to me that there might be even
t s'v.er places i'll the city where people had
Nlolltu IL luub SdNc
wac OF aggravated discomfort. There
eoa. NOEL laundry which was like the
sor aln room of Turkish bath, and in which
ILL., u9zens OF women with compilations
SION o es meat were suffering the CONVEX
ya,os vi their vital energy into aqueous
sago' In every one of these the CONVEX
into :. Vi the inmates could be condensed
AMI a II9 sentence, 81 am made wrotched
Sak a ~ VI oy my work, but don't for goodness
Mac Say anything about it. or I'll lose my
liz Jne Oh the hottest workrooms in the city
though there are hundreds just like it
un5 Jolit over ON Third avenue. II was just
tbo.e the roof of tall building and on
brtiel GoI one could have fried eggs without
wern la neat. In the attic, so to speak,
men.1 uozen men who were making gar
Of tSN. they had dispensed with nearly all
lone ,iI own, for the temperature was
10 aS way above 1907. II was an awful place
rent s a human being to exist in, but the
tail ~ comparatively small, though ac-
tbercy .itdrge, aud clothing could be made
anv6aauva very low figure. But how can
win o.By, stand itl The question struck me
otba.eli sun greater force when visited an
wort pace OF the kind, where women were
IN n iis aV sewing machines All day long
h,, neat so fierce that II suggested nothing
~ a an oven these women kent the treadles
an,otia machines flying up and down. IL Is
mg.at,o,i' Huch moro exhnusting than work
enter u "hht professional pedestrian would
month";. could live through-a three
no bet,,Iace under such conditions, with
Pil2et nan the ordiIisSy starvatiopf